Hampton Clayton

Hampton Clayton (18 June 1938-22 November 1965) was a CIA Black Ops agent who was the leader of Operation Winter Spear in 1965.

Biography
Hampton Clayton was born on 18 June 1938 in Peekskill, New York. Clayton joined the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War in 1956 and was promoted to be in its highly-classified Special Activities Division on missions against the Soviet Union. He was a veteran of numerous special forces actions, so in 1965 he was entrusted with being the commander of the Black Ops team sent to raid Russia in Operation Winter Spear. Clayton's team was victorious, although he was killed.